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Conjunto Monumental de la Cartuja
Founded in 1399, this monastery is today home of the superb Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo which has a collection of modern Andalucian art and frequent temporary exhibitions. The Conjunto Monumental de la Cartuja became the favourite sevillano lodging place for Columbus, who prayed in its chapel before his trip to the Americas and whose remains lay here for more than two decades in the 1530s and 40s.
In 1839 the complex was bought by an enterprising Englishman, Charles Pickman, who turned it into a porcelain factory, building the tall bottle-shaped kilns that stand incongruously beside the monastery buildings. The factory ceased production in the 1980s and in 1992…
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